Hi,
Finally a bit 'of peace! I'm officially on vacation and I can take this opportunity to make a post with all the gifts made for this Christmas.
For starters I gave myself the temptation to make a casserole-carrier ... Except that I'm really into and I finally made eight!
Four for the teachers:

There are many tutorials in internet, I followed the one by Mubbletown To make the labels I stitched the caracters on a tape and then I glued the pieces with hot glue on turquoise felt previously cut with the help of a rotary cutter.
They liked them so much, my sister in law who does not like to cook asked me for one!
I think I'll make a casserole-carrier with a cake and its recipe for her!

I have suffered a little because the fabric lost the links as I passed with serger, so I had to catch again everything with crochet hook before making the hem. I learned two things:
The first is that I'm able to use a crochet hook!!!
The second is that the top and bottom edge of the glove are definitely not as thick as I feared: this experience will help me in my projects tailoring for the construction of meshes and cardigan!
Those who come to visit for the first time and want to make these gloves can find the tutorial here

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Per il nonno una cornice in feltro con la foto del nipotino:

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For our grandfather a felt frame with a picture of his little grandson:

In this case also, for lack of time, I decided to use the felt rather than the padded fabric. I cut six shapes that make up the tree and glued with hot glue. I then added the photos, tassels, pom-pom wool and decorated all over with white acrylic and glitter glue.
The only thing missing is another gift: often we are undecided about what to give to men, especially I had to think about my brother in law and my uncle. In the night between 25 and 26 I had the idea: it is a nice project that is realized in a short time and they really liked it for the originality.
I won't tell you more, in a short time I'll publish photos and tutorial!

Hi,Today I show you something easy to do in half an hour and keep in your bag to reciprocate the "unexpected little gifts". I think it's happened to all of us that a kind person, in a totally unexpected, make us a present on the occasion of Christmas. This year I thought of a keychain cottage shaped, it seems a nice idea not to to be unprepared!

I was inspired by the little cottages I've seen on internet and by a keychain I discovered on Pinterest. I decided to use felt because it allows the realization of fast projects and the result is nice.

If you like this idea all you have to do is cut the two shapes of the little cottage including the roof which should then be covered with white thinner felt. I used the hot glue and I covered both the roof of the front side and the back side. I then completed the front side with scraps of felt for the door and windows. Finally I sewed the front to the back, taking care to leave the top space for passing a string and the bottom opening large enough to pass key ring and keys.Here's the pattern

What do you say, it seems pretty true? And then we can give free rein to imagination: cars, mushrooms, flowers, ladybugs, little hedgehogs, little bees, all that comes to mind!

I think the next few days will be hectic, so I take the opportunity of this post to wish you all Happy Holidays: A Merry Christmas to all of you, your loved ones and your wonderful children!Kisses and soon,Un bacione e a presto,

Now I want to move on to the next level, I'm seriously thinking of buying a weaving loom because it fascinates me since I was a little girl.
I'm torn between this one
and this one with the possibility of expanding: some of you can help me in choosing?

Now, for those who want to try this technique a little useful:
In this blog, "La nana gialla" you will find instructions on how to build a weaving loom like the one I used for this project, how to arm and to begin to weave. You will also find an explanation of technical terms.
This is the link:http://lananagialla.blogspot.it/p/a-scuola-di-tessitura.html
here is my pattern:Pattern.
black checks are where the plot must pass over the warp.

My colleague every day gives us those two pieces of plastic that you can see next to the folder. They regularly end up in the trash: what can they be used for?

I was undecided whether or not to join the swap, I wanted to do something different and completely change the intended use of one thing. I had the idea while I was helping my colleague preparing a couple of folders: I was humming a song by Fred Penner "The cat came back the very next day" ...
And the two pieces of plastic that usually end up in the trash became something like this:

I had found my idea!
A couple of days later I received an email from the newsletter of Marie Claire Idées, with the link to a website where you can download and print a kokeshi to use on cardboard to create a doll with decoupage tecnique...
And the two pieces of plastic became something like this:

I used the pieces as a template to draw the silhouette of a cat and a kokeshi, I colored with crayons, scanned, printed and cut out.
I have given a lot of hands of white acrylic to plastic pieces to prepare them, I used the printed images to make a decoupage on the two plastic pieces and protected them with three hands of polish. Some component of jewelery and this is the result:

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I'm Piera, alias ClaraBelle on the web, mother, wife and daughter. I love sewing, embroidering and everything that's creative. I sew since I was sixteen and now I design my own patterns and sew perfect fit garment. Thanks for stopping here and reading!